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[Kachina624]

I need to do something about getting VOIP.  @SilleeMee  has told me about hers but I hesitate due to the installation and mechanics of starting it.

I pay just under $200/mo for wifi and only make a handful of phone calls.  Ridiculous to pay that much.

[Desertdi]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I need to do something about getting VOIP.  @SilleeMee  has told me about hers but I hesitate due to the installation and mechanics of starting it.

I pay just under $200/mo for wifi and only make a handful of phone calls.  Ridiculous to pay that much.

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@Kachina624    

I have COX, Phoenix.     My cable bill is $286 for TV, phone and internet.    It was $30 when I moved in here in '99.

Electricity....I haven't gotten my "new" bill yet.    That's supposedly up 14%.  It isn't even a public utility.   It's a private company listed on the NYSE.

Water company sent out a notice that it was going up "substantially"...but they didn't have the exact amount determined yet.

Do you remember the song "16 tons" ?      

di

[spabar]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@Desertdi.  Have yoru ever had a call and your own number was in the caller ID?  They can do that too.  I had one once.

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@Kachina624  I have quite a few times. I took a photo of the screen so people wouldn't think I lost it when I told them about it.

[SilleeMee]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I need to do something about getting VOIP.  @SilleeMee  has told me about hers but I hesitate due to the installation and mechanics of starting it.

I pay just under $200/mo for wifi and only make a handful of phone calls.  Ridiculous to pay that much.

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@Kachina624 

It's pretty straight forward. Just buy the VOIP box, plug the thing into the back of your router and set it up online from there. You can keep your phone number but that comes with a fee and a short wait time but not long. 

[Estellee]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@Desertdi.  Have yoru ever had a call and your own number was in the caller ID?  They can do that too.  I had one once.

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@Kachina624 I remember the first time that happened I stared at the caller id for a bit before I answered. I was curious lol

[jackthebear]

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@We rescue cats wrote:

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@Kachina624 wrote:

That's why I never answer unfamiliar phone numbers.   It also keeps me off sucker lists so I get almost no strange/nuisance calls. 

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Unfortunately I don't have that luxury. . . wish I did!

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why not? do you answer every call? 

[jackthebear]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I need to do something about getting VOIP.  @SilleeMee  has told me about hers but I hesitate due to the installation and mechanics of starting it.

I pay just under $200/mo for wifi and only make a handful of phone calls.  Ridiculous to pay that much.

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it is worth researching how to reduce your bill, 

I dumped cable

for now keeping the land line for the fax for the business

[Venezia]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@Desertdi.  Have yoru ever had a call and your own number was in the caller ID?  They can do that too.  I had one once.

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@Kachina624 - I haven't had that happen with our phone (we have VOIP and call blocker with Spectrum; works great!).

BUT I have in recent months gotten emails from myself!!!  The idiot spammers have used my own email address to send me emails.  I always hover over the address and, of course, it's a long string of gibberish.

Mostly from a domain in the Netherlands.  It doesn't happen often but, when it does, I tell DH "Oh, I'm sending myself emails again!"

[Venezia]

@Kachina624 - We have our VOIP phone through Spectrum.  You just plug your phone cable into the router.  We've had it for years now.

Our prior (lousy) phone service was expensive and the clarity was awful; we were constantly having to get someone out to fix issues with it because the phone company would never invest any money to update things.  It was always, patch, patch, patch.

We now pay $60 a month for high-speed internet and an additional $10 a month (guaranteed for 3 years) for excellent phone service, free calls nationwide and to most countries.

We used to pay hundreds of dollars for ****** internet and phone service because it was all we could get in our rural area.  Thank goodness that's no longer the case!

I wouldn't go back to older phone technology.  Of course, if the power/internet goes out, so does the phone with VOIP, but we have cell phones for that circumstance.

[Icegoddess]

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@Desertdi wrote:

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@Kachina624 wrote:

That's why I never answer unfamiliar phone numbers.   It also keeps me off sucker lists so I get almost no strange/nuisance calls. 

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@Kachina624 

And NOW these crooks are stealing real people's caller IDs.

I have had 4 calls in one day from a "hospital", the Phoenix "school" district, a brokerage house, etc.    They were all kinda like the Social Security Lady phone calls.    Ya know: "this is an emergency that needs your immediate attention".....       di

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I'd consider those unknown too and don't anwswer them.  I get calls from myself sometimes too and don't answer them either.